MEETING: Tuesday, July 3rd, 7-9pm at Crowd Compass

[Igal Koshevoy]

[ Add this event to your calendar:  http://calagator.org/events/1250462417 ]

The next meeting of the Portland Ruby Brigade is coming up next week.

If you have a suggestion for a presentation, lightning talk, discussion topic, have questions you'd like answered, etc. ... please prepare and either reply or mention it at the beginning of the meeting. You're also welcome to post suggestions any time during the month.

-igal

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GROUP: The Portland Ruby Brigade is a user group for Ruby programmers
in the Portland Oregon area. Join other developers for  presentations
and discussions about Ruby and its uses. Meetings are usually on the
first Tuesday of the month.

VENUE: CrowdCompass office in the Ford Building, 2505 SE 11th Ave,
#300, Portland, OR 97202, US. The meeting will be in suite 300 on the
3rd floor, which has a "CrowdCompass" sign by the door. You can enter
the building after hours on Division by walking through "Ford Food &
Drink", or on 11th by walking through the parking lot. This venue is
kindly provided by CrowdCompass, "the ultimate mobile app provider for
conferences": http://www.crowdcompass.com/

[Jesse Cooke]

If the group is still interested, Dann Stayskal offered to give a talk on open source licenses. Not Ruby, per se, but interesting none-the-less.

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[Benjamin Cullen-Kerney]

I think that would be a great end cap on osbridge. 

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Ben Cullen-Kerney

(Sent from my thumbs. Please excuse my brevity, typos, and unintentionally-hilarious autocorrections.)

[Igal Koshevoy]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Jesse Cooke <je...@jc00ke.com> wrote:

If the group is still interested, Dann Stayskal offered to give a talk on open source licenses. Not Ruby, per se, but interesting none-the-less.

That sounds good. Will you still be able to give this talk at the upcoming meeting, Dann?

-igal

[Igal Koshevoy]

Also, there was interest in talking about rbenv + ruby-build vs. rvm, and various ways to get rubies installed and coexisting on computers. I recall that Nic Benders was thinking of talking about this. I've also done further research into this and can provide additional commentary.

Nic, want to take a shot at talking about this at the upcoming meeting?

-igal

[Jesse Cooke]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Igal Koshevoy <ig...@pragmaticraft.com> wrote:

Also, there was interest in talking about rbenv + ruby-build vs. rvm, and various ways to get rubies installed and coexisting on computers. I recall that Nic Benders was thinking of talking about this. I've also done further research into this and can provide additional commentary.

And now rbfu!

www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/voy47/rbfu_030_the_lightweight_alternative_to_rvm_and/

<le sigh /> 

Nic, want to take a shot at talking about this at the upcoming meeting?

-igal

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[Sam Livingston-Gray]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Jesse Cooke <je...@jc00ke.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Igal Koshevoy <ig...@pragmaticraft.com>
> wrote:
>> Also, there was interest in talking about rbenv + ruby-build vs. rvm,

> And now rbfu!
> www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/voy47/rbfu_030_the_lightweight_alternative_to_rvm_and/
> <le sigh />

Ruby path managers are the new testing framework.

[Dann Stayskal]

Igal,

It's going to be a stretch for me to make it to this meeting on time,
though there's a chance I could make it there from Copious by 8pm. If
there's another talk that someone else would like to present, I would
rather not block them.

I can perhaps give the talk meeting after next, though would need to
confirm more than a week in advance if that's amenable to your schedule?

-- Dann

[Matthew Boeh]

I'm interested in giving a talk about concurrency in Ruby. Basically,
what I'd cover is:

* The history of concurrency in Ruby
* Current options and how the current Ruby implementations differ
* The tradeoffs between evented and threaded approaches to I/O
* What Rubyists can learn from other languages

I'd probably be targeting 30 minutes or so but I can trim it down. If
we want to stretch it out I can put in some inflammatory opinions
(I've got a million of 'em) to get a conversation/argument/brawl
started.

Matthew Boeh

[Igal Koshevoy]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Dann Stayskal <da...@stayskal.com> wrote:

  It's going to be a stretch for me to make it to this meeting on time,
though there's a chance I could make it there from Copious by 8pm.  If
there's another talk that someone else would like to present, I would
rather not block them.

  I can perhaps give the talk meeting after next, though would need to
confirm more than a week in advance if that's amenable to your schedule?

In that case, let's hold off and plan to do your talk at the August meeting.

I've setup a calendar reminder for 10 days before that meeting as a reminder.

Thanks,

-igal 

[Igal Koshevoy]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Matthew Boeh <matthe...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm interested in giving a talk about concurrency in Ruby. Basically,
what I'd cover is:

* The history of concurrency in Ruby
* Current options and how the current Ruby implementations differ
* The tradeoffs between evented and threaded approaches to I/O
* What Rubyists can learn from other languages

I'd probably be targeting 30 minutes or so but I can trim it down. If
we want to stretch it out I can put in some inflammatory opinions
(I've got a million of 'em) to get a conversation/argument/brawl 

started.

That sounds both awesome and timely.

How about we do your talk last on the agenda and start it 30-45 minutes before the end of the meeting, that way we can choose to extend it for entertaining/enlightening conversation/arguments/brawling.

Thanks!

 

-igal 

[Igal Koshevoy]

Nic Benders and I will co-present a talk on installing and managing Ruby interpreters: building and activating a Ruby with rbenv + ruby-build, rvm, or raw compile; bootstrapping via shell or cloud-init; and deploying using Chef and Puppet in various ways.

We're also interested in hearing how other people are doing this sort of stuff during the discussion portion of the talk, because the best practices for this remain an elusive moving target.

This talk will probably take 30-45 minutes including discussion.

I think we may have a full agenda between this, Matthew's concurrency talk and any entertainment that Markus can start us off with (e.g. maybe a small slice of his Open Source Bridge talk, to save him preparation time). If there's time left over, we can allocate it to group discussions.

-igal

[Igal Koshevoy]

Just a reminder that we have a meeting tonight:

* Matthew Boeh will present "Concurrency in Ruby": The history of
concurrency in Ruby. Current options and how the current Ruby
implementations differ. The tradeoffs between evented and threaded
approaches to I/O. What Rubyists can learn from other languages.
* Nic Benders and Igal Koshevoy will present "Installing and Managing
Ruby Interpreters": rvm and rbenv + ruby-build; deploying with Chef
and Puppet; provisioning with cloud-init and other options.
* ...and more!

See you soon,

-igal

[Phil Tomson]

Hey, something to ponder:

Next month will be the 10th anniversary of PDX.rb.  I don't recall the exact date, but we had the first meeting in August of 2002 at the Cedar Hills McMenamins.

Cake for August?

Phil

[Jesse Cooke]

At least cake, maybe just a party?

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[Matthew Boeh]

+1 cake

Matthew Boeh

[markus]

> +1 cake
>
> Matthew Boeh

So we're at two cakes, do I hear three?

-- M

[Davy Stevenson]

Hey Everyone,

My employer, Elemental Technologies, recently moved to a great new office downtown, and we would love to host a pdxruby meeting. We will provide beer and pizza (or another food option if so desired). Maybe this offer could be combined with the 10th anniversary and be more party than meetup? I will also personally bring the cake count up to 3.

Our biggest conference room can hold at least the same amount of people as the Crowd Compass space, for reference (though we do not have such wonderfully high ceilings). The rest of our office is still pretty open (we're preparing for some growth!) and thus it could be great for mingling. We're located on Broadway just off Burnside.

What to people think?

Thanks,

Davy Stevenson

[Ben Munat]

FIVE CAKES!! HA HA HA HAAAAA.

b

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[Benjamin Cullen-Kerney]

It sounds like an excellent space, but if this is a proposal to change venues for the upcoming meeting now, *and going forward*, then this conversation is a referendum on the move from Robert Half to CrowdCompass. 

So, how does everybody feel about the move from downtown to SE? I think that most of the pros we saw, e.g., better parking and proximity to beer, have played out well. Any thoughts?

- Ben

[Davy Stevenson]

This is not a request to move all future meetings -- just a request to host one meeting. If people want to switch things up occasionally in the future as well, Elemental would be open to hosting some future meetings. But it seems like people enjoy the Crowd Compass space and we are not looking to change that! 

I know there have been discussions on whether downtown vs SE is more convenient for people, with a decent split either way, and it seems like it would be good to have multiple options for meeting spaces.

Thanks,

Davy

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[Benjamin Cullen-Kerney]

Yeah, I misread your post. Thanks Davy. 

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Ben Cullen-Kerney

(Sent from my thumbs. Please excuse my brevity, typos, and unintentionally-hilarious autocorrections.)

[Matthew Boeh]

The only thing we'd ask is that if we won't be hosting the meeting at
CrowdCompass during a given month, it'd be good to have advance notice
so we don't rent the chairs.

Matthew Boeh

[Eric MacAdie]

Are any of these presentations available online?

- Eric MacAdie